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H. A. LYON.

CARTRIDGE IMPLEMENT.

No. 378,400. Patented Feb. 21, 1888.

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iJNTTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. LYON, OF SIOUX CITY, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES W. BOYD, OF CHARDON, NEBRASKA.

CARTRIDGE IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,400, dated February 21, 1888.

Application filed June 22, 1887. Serial No. 242,127. (No model.)

6 To all whom, it 17mg concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. LYON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sioux City, in the county of Woodbury and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge Implements; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates, in general, to compound tools for casting bullets and reloading cartridges; and it relates, particularly, to improvements in the cartridge implement which is the. subject of Letters Patent No. 358,769, issued March 1, 1887. Y

The object of this invention is, first, to provide means in a simple implement for recapping different styles of cartridges on which two different sizes of caps or primers are used; second, to provide means whereby the bulletmold, dowel-pin, and hole may be used for trimming to one exact cylindrical size all bullets which have had fins or other irregularities formed on them in casting; third, to provide means whereby the said dowel-pin may further serve as an expander for opening the mouth of cartridge-shells to receive bullets, and, fourth, to provide means forpressing them centrally into the cartridge-shell and at the same time swaging the lips of the shell firmly upon the bullet to hold it central.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming a cartridge implement, hereinafter described, and particularly set forth in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cartridge implement according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof with the swaging-follower extended.

5 and 6 represent two arms of the body of the implement, pivoted together at 7, and provided with levers or handles at their opposite end, whereby they may be opened or closed, turning upon thesaidpivot toperformthevarious offices required. Bullet-molds 8 are formed in the body along the joint and covered in by a side plate, 9, perforated opposite to each mold to receive melted lead. Each perforat-ion is countersunk to form a sharp cuttingedge at the inner face of the plate, and the plate is pivoted to the arm'6 at 10, and slotted at 11 to slide upon a pin or screw, 12, which is fixed in the arm 5, whereby the opening of the arms 5 and 6 slides the plate 9 toward the arm 5 and cuts off the necks of the bullets. The tenon 13 of the arm 6 enters between cheek-plates 14 of the arm 5, and a stud, 15, projects from the said tenon to serve as a recapper, acting in conjunction with the shellholding notches 16 in the plates 1.4.

All the above-named parts are shown and described in Patent No. 358,769, above referred to, as also is the cap-ejector 17. The cap-extractor 18 is common. Therefore I do not herein claim any peculiarities thus far described.

In the present case'I have made the stud as a screw, threaded through the tenon 13, in order that it may be longitudinally adjusted to come to a square bearing against the cap when the latter is thereby pushed homo, and I have made the head of the screw 15 of a size to correspond to one size of caps and the point of the screw of a size to correspond to another size of caps, and the screw may be reversed in its bearing to be used either end first.

In operation the shell is to be placed with its flange in one pair of the notches 16. Then the cap is to be put in place. Now, by steadily opening the handles 5 6 the screw 15 will be pressed upon the cap to crowd it homethat is,with its outer face just within the face of the shell-head, so as to be protected thereby. To this end the screw must be small enough to enter with the cap, but not so small as to endanger puncturing the cap. Therefore such a screw as would set home a small cap would be in danger of puncturing and exploding a large cap, and to meet this objection I have provided the reversible screw 15 with ends of two different sizes.

19 is a dowel-pin fixed to the arm 5, and 20 is the dowel-hole in the arm 6, the pin and hole registering together when the molds are closed to keep the latter in exact registry while casting bullets. I make the hole 20 of the exact size required as a trimming-die for the bullet, and I flatten the end of pin 19 to serve as a follower to push the bullet through the hole, using the handles of the arms 5 and 6 as levers for thus forcing the bullet through the hole to trim and swage the .bullet to the required size. That portion 30 near the base of the pin 19, which does not enter the hole, I make enlarged and tapering down to the size of the bullet, to serve as an expander to the shell. By crowding the mouth of the shell upon this expander the mouth will be opened so as to freely receive a bullet made in this mold. Thus the pin 19 and hole 20 serve as a trimmer and swage for the bullet,an d the pin serves as a shell-expander.

21 is a chamber in the arm 5, shaped in exact conformity with the exterior of a loaded cartridge, the form at 22 fitting the bullet and the taper at 23 receiving the end of the shell and swaging it firmly around the bullet by the act of forcing the cartridge into the chamber. For this purpose I attach a follower, 24, and an extractor, 25, to the sides of the plate 9, and I make the slot 11 with two inclines, 27 and 28, or curved in an equivalent manner. In order to stiffen this device I have provided another plate, 26, which is an exact duplicate of the plate 9, omitting the bulletmold holes, and have pivoted it to the opposite end of the pin 10. The follower 2st and extractors 25 I make in one piece, as shown in Fig. 3, and secure the same rigidly between the plates 9 and 26.

The operation offixing the bullet in the shell is as follows: I-Iaving first capped the shell and charged it with powder, place the bullet in the shell and insert the cartridge so loaded as far as it will go into the chamber 21 while the arms 5 and 6 are held open to their utmost limit. In so placing the cartridge its flange will pass over the follower 24, but will be stopped by the extractor 25. Now close the arms 5 and 6 and the plates 9 and 26, first sliding their inclines 27 upon the pins 12, which will raise the follower 24 up behind the cartridge. Then, as the motion continues, the inclines 28 will cause the follower to pull the cartridge straight into the chamber. When the shell meets the tapering sides 23, the pivot 10 is passing center and the arms 5 and 6 are nearly closed and'in position to apply great force with little exertion of the operators hand in swaging the shell around the bullet. At the same time the bullet is seated at 22 and held perfectly in line with the shell. The follower 24 is slightly rccessed at 29, so that it may not endanger explosion from a thick or overloaded cap. Thus completely closing the arms together finishes the cartridge. By opening the arms the extractor 25 will engage the cartridge and withdraw it from the chamber far enough to free it. Then the incline 27 guides the follower 24 down out of line of the cartridge, leaving it free to be removed from the implement. The incline 28 is arranged at such an angle to the line of motion of the follower 24 and extractor 25 as to compensate for the circular movement of the pin 10 and maintain the said line of motion of the follower and extractor.

Having thus fully described my invention,

into the said tenon, substantially as shown and described, whereby the said stud is made adjustable, for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of two arms pivoted together, one arm being provided with checkplates at the joint, notched, as at 16, to receive the flange of a cartridge, and the other arm having a tenon entering between the saidv cheek plates, and a screw having one end smaller than the other and reversibly fitted to screw through the said tenon, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination of two arms pivoted together near one end and provided with handlevers at the other end, and having bulletmolds formed at their joint, one arm being provided with a dowel-pin and the other arm having a hole fitted to register with the said pin, the said pin-hole being shaped as a trimming-die for bullets cast in the molds, and the said dowel-pin being flattened on its end as a follower to force bullets through the die, substantially as shown and described.

4-. The combination of two arms pivoted together and shaped as a bullet-mold, one of the arms being provided with a dowel-pin and the other arm having a hole registering therewith to hold the arm in correct alignment therewith, the said dowel-pin being shaped as an expander or rcsizer to open the mouth of a shell to receive the bullets cast in the said mold, substantially as sliownand described.

5 The combination of two arms, 5 and 6, pivoted together near one end and shaped as a bullet-mold, a neck-cutter plate, 9, at one side of the mold, pivoted to the arm 6 at 10, and having a curved or angular slot, 11, a pin, 12, secured to the other arm to enter the said slot, a follower, 24, and an extractor, 25, upon the cutter-plate, registering and cooperating with a chamber in the arm 5, shaped in conformity with the exterior of a cartridge, substantially as shown and described.

6. The combination of two arms pivoted together, one of the said arms being chambered in conformity with the'exterior of a cartridge, a plate or plates pivoted to the other arm and having guide-slots, a follower and extractor secured to the said plate or plates and registering with the said chamber, and guidepins for the said slots, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY A. LYON.

\Vitnesses:

TI-IEO. MUNGEN, V. X. SrEvENs. 

